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Article: California Inventors Develop Closed-Caption Text Provision Method
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- August 22, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 22 -- James Cashin and Earl Roger Hibbard, both of San Luis Obispo, Calif., have developed a method for providing closed-caption text.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing closed-caption text in a movie theater wherein the caption information is only visible to those patrons wishing to view the text, comprising a projector projecting a plurality of light applications onto a predetermined strip of light in a viewing area, encoding the caption text so that it will only be viewed within the predetermined strip of light in the viewing area and decoding the encoded text so that it will be viewed only by those patrons wishing to view ...